I have a feeling that the engaged and interesting teachers are the ones that use twitter. If you did not use twitter or other online stuff, you’d be the kind of teacher that engages anyway. Back in the day we sang, spoke, wrote, danced, did play-acting…we have a full range of social tools and cultural exploits we can exercise outside of electronics. Or are you directing instruction to large masses – maybe doing this with distance education? Which starts to make it more important.
And I don’t know how everybody else feels – but is there relief from the constant contact? I get this picture that the work never ends now. Somebody will have to make the excuse that the smartphone and the computer both landed in the swamp to be able to disconnect from everything.
Maybe it starts to be beneficial to changing the system if all teachers are pressured to use blogs/twitter/facebook – freshening up some of the zombies?? Is that what is happening along the way? The dead teachers are quitting or getting on board?

stickycarrots
http://twitter.com/stickycarrots

Having examples of how other people use Twitter when you’re not sure of its worth is a way to “get” why/how people use it. Sometimes it’s not if we value it but rather who values it.

~Lee~